Year Award Author Title Publisher Judges 1969 Winner P. H. Newby Something to Answer For Faber & Faber Shortlist Barry England Figures in a Landscape Jonathan Cape Nicholas Mosley Impossible Object Hodder & Stoughton Iris Murdoch The Nice and the Good Chatto & Windus Muriel Spark The Public Image Macmillan Gordon Williams From Scenes Like These Secker & Warburg 1970 Winner Bernice Rubens The Elected Member Eyre & Spottiswoode Shortlist A. L. Barker John Brown's Body Hogarth Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout Jonathan Cape Iris Murdoch Bruno's Dream Chatto & Windus William Trevor Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel Bodley Head Terence Wheeler The Conjunction Angus & Robertson 1970* [ 1] Winner J. G. Farrell Troubles Weidenfeld & Nicolson Shortlist Nina Bawden The Birds on the Trees Virago Shirley Hazzard The Bay of Noon Macmillan Mary Renault Fire From Heaven Longman Muriel Spark The Driver's Seat Macmillan Patrick White The Vivisector Jonathan Cape Longlist [ 2] Brian Aldiss The Hand Reared Boy Weidenfeld & Nicolson H. E. Bates A Little of What You Fancy? Michael Joseph Melvyn Bragg A Place in England Secker & Warburg Christy Brown Down All the Days Secker & Warburg Len Deighton Bomber Jonathan Cape Elaine Feinstein The Circle Hutchinson Reginald Hill A Clubbable Woman HarperCollins Susan Hill I'm the King of the Castle Hamish Hamilton Francis King A Domestic Animal Longman Margaret Laurence The Fire Dwellers Macmillan David Lodge Out of the Shelter Macmillan Iris Murdoch A Fairly Honourable Defeat Chatto & Windus Shiva Naipaul Fireflies André Deutsch Patrick O'Brian Master and Commander Collins Joe Orton Head To Toe Methuen Ruth Rendell A Guilty Thing Surprised Hutchinson 1971 Winner V. S. Naipaul In a Free State Deutsch Shortlist Thomas Kilroy The Big Chapel Faber & Faber Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell Jonathan Cape Mordecai Richler St. Urbain's Horseman Weidenfeld & Nicolson Derek Robinson Goshawk Squadron Heinemann Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Chatto & Windus 1972 Winner John Berger G. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Shortlist Susan Hill The Bird of Night Hamish Hamilton Thomas Keneally The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Angus & Robertson David Storey Pasmore Longman 1973 Winner J. G. Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur Weidenfeld & Nicolson Shortlist Beryl Bainbridge The Dressmaker Duckworth Elizabeth Mavor A Green Equinox Michael Joseph Iris Murdoch The Black Prince Chatto & Windus 1974 Winners Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist Jonathan Cape Stanley Middleton Holiday Hutchinson Shortlist Kingsley Amis Ending Up Jonathan Cape Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing Duckworth C. P. Snow In Their Wisdom Macmillan 1975 Winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust John Murray Shortlist Thomas Keneally Gossip from the Forest Collins 1976 Winner David Storey Saville Jonathan Cape Shortlist André Brink An Instant in the Wind W. H. Allen R. C. Hutchinson Rising Michael Joseph Brian Moore The Doctor's Wife Jonathan Cape Julian Rathbone King Fisher Lives Michael Joseph William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth Bodley Head 1977 Winner Paul Scott Staying On Heinemann Shortlist Paul Bailey Peter Smart's Confessions Jonathan Cape Caroline Blackwood Great Granny Webster Duckworth Jennifer Johnston Shadows on Our Skin Hamish Hamilton Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield Heinemann Barbara Pym Quartet in Autumn Macmillan 1978 Winner Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea Chatto & Windus Shortlist Kingsley Amis Jake's Thing Hutchinson André Brink Rumours of Rain W. H. Allen Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop Duckworth Jane Gardam God on the Rocks Hamish Hamilton Bernice Rubens A Five-Year Sentence W. H. Allen 1979 Winner Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore Collins Shortlist Thomas Keneally Confederates Collins V. S. Naipaul A Bend in the River Deutsch Julian Rathbone Joseph Michael Joseph Fay Weldon Praxis Hodder & Stoughton 1980 Winner William Golding Rites of Passage Faber & Faber Shortlist Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers Hutchinson J. L. Carr A Month in the Country Harvester Anita Desai Clear Light of Day Heinemann Alice Munro The Beggar Maid Viking Julia O'Faolain No Country for Young Men Viking Barry Unsworth Pascali's Island Michael Joseph 1981 Winner Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Jonathan Cape Shortlist Molly Keane Good Behaviour Deutsch Doris Lessing The Sirian Experiments Jonathan Cape Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers Jonathan Cape Ann Schlee Rhine Journey Macmillan Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent Bodley Head D. M. Thomas The White Hotel Gollancz 1982 Winner Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Hodder & Stoughton Shortlist John Arden Silence Among the Weapons Methuen William Boyd An Ice-Cream War Hamish Hamilton Lawrence Durrell Constance or Solitary Practices Faber & Faber Alice Thomas Ellis The 27th Kingdom Duckworth Timothy Mo Sour Sweet Deutsch 1983 Winner J. M. Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K Secker & Warburg Shortlist Malcolm Bradbury Rates of Exchange Secker & Warburg John Fuller Flying to Nowhere Salamander Anita Mason The Illusionist Hamish Hamilton Salman Rushdie Shame Jonathan Cape Graham Swift Waterland Heinemann 1984 Winner Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Jonathan Cape Shortlist J. G. Ballard Empire of the Sun Gollancz Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot Jonathan Cape Anita Desai In Custody Heinemann Penelope Lively According to Mark Heinemann David Lodge Small World Secker & Warburg 1985 Winner [ 3] Keri Hulme The Bone People Hodder & Stoughton Shortlist Peter Carey Illywhacker Faber & Faber J. L. Carr The Battle of Pollocks Crossing Viking Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist Jonathan Cape Jan Morris Last Letters from Hav Viking Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice Chatto & Windus 1986 Winner Kingsley Amis The Old Devils Hutchinson Shortlist Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Jonathan Cape Paul Bailey Gabriel's Lament Jonathan Cape Robertson Davies What's Bred in the Bone Viking Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Faber & Faber Timothy Mo An Insular Possession Chatto & Windus 1987 Winner Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Deutsch Shortlist Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah Heinemann Peter Ackroyd Chatterton Hamish Hamilton Nina Bawden Circles of Deceit Macmillan Brian Moore The Colour of Blood Jonathan Cape Iris Murdoch The Book and the Brotherhood Chatto & Windus 1988 Winner Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Faber & Faber Shortlist Bruce Chatwin Utz Jonathan Cape Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring Collins David Lodge Nice Work Secker & Warburg Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Viking Marina Warner The Lost Father Chatto & Windus 1989 Winner Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Faber & Faber Shortlist Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye Bloomsbury John Banville The Book of Evidence Secker & Warburg Sybille Bedford Jigsaw Hamish Hamilton James Kelman A Disaffection Secker & Warburg Rose Tremain Restoration Hamish Hamilton 1990 Winner A. S. Byatt Possession: A Romance Chatto & Windus Shortlist Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure Duckworth Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate of Angels Collins John McGahern Amongst Women Faber & Faber Brian Moore Lies of Silence Bloomsbury Mordecai Richler Solomon Gursky Was Here Chatto & Windus 1991 Winner Ben Okri The Famished Road Jonathan Cape Shortlist Martin Amis Time's Arrow Jonathan Cape Roddy Doyle The Van Secker & Warburg Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey Faber & Faber Timothy Mo The Redundancy of Courage Chatto & Windus William Trevor Reading Turgenev [ 4] Viking 1992 Winners Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Bloomsbury Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger Hamish Hamilton Shortlist Christopher Hope Serenity House Macmillan Patrick McCabe The Butcher Boy Picador Ian McEwan Black Dogs Jonathan Cape Michèle Roberts Daughters of the House Virago 1993 Winner Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Secker & Warburg Shortlist Tibor Fischer Under the Frog Polygon Michael Ignatieff Scar Tissue Chatto & Windus David Malouf Remembering Babylon Chatto & Windus Caryl Phillips Crossing the River Bloomsbury Carol Shields The Stone Diaries 4th Estate 1994 Winner James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late Secker & Warburg Shortlist Romesh Gunesekera Reef Granta Books Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise Hamish Hamilton Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star Chatto & Windus George Mackay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time John Murray Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels Green Bay 1995 Winner Pat Barker The Ghost Road Viking Shortlist Justin Cartwright In Every Face I Meet Sceptre Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh Jonathan Cape Barry Unsworth Morality Play Hamish Hamilton Tim Winton The Riders Picador 1996 Winner Graham Swift Last Orders Picador Shortlist Margaret Atwood Alias Grace Bloomsbury Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself Duckworth Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark Jonathan Cape Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire Heinemann Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Faber & Faber 1997 Winner Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Flamingo Shortlist Jim Crace Quarantine Viking Mick Jackson The Underground Man Picador Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes Jonathan Cape Tim Parks Europa Secker & Warburg Madeleine St John The Essence of the Thing 4th Estate 1998 Winner Ian McEwan Amsterdam Jonathan Cape Shortlist Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie Duckworth Julian Barnes England, England Jonathan Cape Martin Booth The Industry of Souls Dewi Lewis Patrick McCabe Breakfast on Pluto Picador Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts Flamingo 1999 Winner J. M. Coetzee Disgrace Secker & Warburg Shortlist Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting Chatto & Windus Michael Frayn Headlong Faber & Faber Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers Faber & Faber Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love Bloomsbury Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship Picador 2000 Winner Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Bloomsbury Shortlist Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place Picador Michael Collins The Keepers of Truth Phoenix House Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans Faber & Faber Matthew Kneale English Passengers Hamish Hamilton Brian O'Doherty The Deposition of Father McGreevy Arcadia 2001 [ 6] Winner Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber Shortlist Ian McEwan Atonement Jonathan Cape Andrew Miller Oxygen Sceptre David Mitchell number9dream Sceptre Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room William Heinemann Ali Smith Hotel World Hamish Hamilton Longlist Beryl Bainbridge According to Queeney Duckworth Derek Beaven If The Invader Comes 4th Estate Melvyn Bragg A Son of War Sceptre Ciaran Carson Shamrock Tea Granta Books Stevie Davies The Element of Water The Women's Press Nadine Gordimer The Pickup Bloomsbury Patricia Grace Dogside Story The Women's Press Abdulrazak Gurnah By The Sea Bloomsbury Nick Hornby How to Be Good Viking Zvi Jagendorf Wolfy and the Strudelbakers Dewi Lewis James Kelman Translated Accounts Secker & Warburg Eoin McNamee The Blue Tango Faber & Faber Ferdinand Mount Fairness Chatto & Windus VS Naipaul Half a Life Picador Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass Scholastic Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu Bloomsbury Jane Urquhart The Stone Carvers Bloomsbury Marina Warner The Leto Bundle Chatto & Windus 2002 [ 7] Winner Yann Martel Life of Pi Canongate Shortlist Rohinton Mistry Family Matters Faber & Faber Carol Shields Unless 4th Estate William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault Viking Sarah Waters Fingersmith Virago Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador Longlist Dannie Abse The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass Robson Books John Banville Shroud Picador Joan Barfoot Critical Injuries The Women's Press William Boyd Any Human Heart Hamish Hamilton Anita Brookner The Next Big Thing Viking Robert Edric Peacetime Black Swan Michael Frayn Spies Faber & Faber Linda Grant Still Here Little Brown Philip Hensher The Mulberry Empire Flamingo Howard Jacobson Who’s Sorry Now? Cape Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things 4th Estate Will Self Dorian, an Imitation Viking Zadie Smith The Autograph Man Hamish Hamilton Colin Thubron To the Last City Chatto & Windus 2003 [ 8] Winner DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Faber & Faber Shortlist Monica Ali Brick Lane Doubleday Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake Bloomsbury Damon Galgut The Good Doctor Atlantic Books Zoë Heller Notes on a Scandal Viking Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour Tindal Street Press Longlist Martin Amis Yellow Dog Cape Carol Birch Turn Again Home Virago Melvyn Bragg Crossing the Lines Sceptre J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello Harvill Secker Julia Darling The Taxi Driver’s Daughter Penguin Gerard Donovan Schopenhauer’s Telescope Scribner Barbara Gowdy The Romantic Harper Perennial Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Doubleday Francis King The Nick of Time Arcadia Shena Mackay Heligoland Cape John Murray Jazz etc. Flambard Press Julie Myerson Something Might Happen Cape Tim Parks Judge Savage Secker & Warburg Caryl Phillips A Distant Shore Secker & Warburg Jonathan Raban Waxwings Picador Graham Swift The Light of Day Simon & Schuster Barbara Trapido Frankie & Stankie Bloomsbury 2004 [ 9] Winner Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty Picador Shortlist Achmat Dangor Bitter Fruit Atlantic Sarah Hall The Electric Michelangelo Faber & Faber David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Sceptre Colm Tóibín The Master Picador Gerard Woodward I'll Go to Bed at Noon Chatto & Windus Longlist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus 4th Estate Nadeem Aslam Maps for Lost Lovers Faber & Faber Nicola Barker Clear: A Transparent Novel 4th Estate John Bemrose The Island Walkers John Murray Ronan Bennett Havoc, in Its Third Year Bloomsbury Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Bloomsbury Neil Cross Always the Sun Scribner Louise Dean Becoming Strangers Scribner Lewis Desoto A Blade of Grass Maia James Hamilton-Paterson Cooking with Fernet Branca Faber & Faber Justin Haythe The Honeymoon Picador Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire Virago Gail Jones Sixty Lights Harvill Sam North The Unnumbered Scribner Nicholas Shakespeare Snowleg Harvill Matt Thorne Cherry Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 [ 10] Winner John Banville The Sea Picador Shortlist Julian Barnes Arthur & George Jonathan Cape Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way Faber & Faber Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Faber & Faber Ali Smith The Accidental Hamish Hamilton Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton Longlist Tash Aw The Harmony Silk Factory 4th Estate J. M. Coetzee Slow Man Secker & Warburg Rachel Cusk In the Fold Faber & Faber Dan Jacobson All For Love Hamish Hamilton Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Viking Hilary Mantel Beyond Black 4th Estate Ian McEwan Saturday Jonathan Cape James Meek The People’s Act of Love Canongate Salman Rushdie Shalimar the Clown Jonathan Cape Harry Thompson This Thing of Darkness Headline Review William Wall This Is The Country Sceptre 2006 [ 11] Winner Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Hamish Hamilton Shortlist Kate Grenville The Secret River Canongate M. J. Hyland Carry Me Down Canongate Hisham Matar In the Country of Men Viking Edward St Aubyn Mother's Milk Picador Sarah Waters The Night Watch Virago Longlist Peter Carey Theft: A Love Story Faber & Faber Robert Edric Gathering the Water Black Swan Nadine Gordimer Get A Life Bloomsbury Howard Jacobson Kalooki Nights Jonathan Cape James Lasdun Seven Lies Jonathan Cape Mary Lawson The Other Side of the Bridge Chatto & Windus Jon McGregor So Many Ways to Begin Bloomsbury Claire Messud The Emperor’s Children Picador David Mitchell Black Swan Green Sceptre Naeem Murr The Perfect Man William Heinemann Andrew O'Hagan Be Near Me Faber & Faber James Robertson The Testament of Gideon Mack Hamish Hamilton Barry Unsworth The Ruby in Her Navel Hamish Hamilton 2007 [ 12] Winner Anne Enright The Gathering Jonathan Cape Shortlist Nicola Barker Darkmans 4th Estate Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist Hamish Hamilton Lloyd Jones Mister Pip John Murray Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach Jonathan Cape Indra Sinha Animal's People Simon & Schuster Longlist Edward Docx Self Help Picador Peter Ho Davies The Welsh Girl Sceptre Nikita Lalwani Gifted Penguin Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost Tindal Street Press Michael Redhill Consolation William Heinemann Tan Twan Eng The Gift of Rain Myrmidon A. N. Wilson Winnie & Wolf Hutchinson 2008 [ 13] Winner Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Atlantic Shortlist Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture Faber & Faber Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies John Murray Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs Virago Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency 4th Estate Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole Hamish Hamilton Longlist Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dress Tindal Street Press John Berger From A to X Verso Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog Chatto & Windus Mohammed Hanif A Case of Exploding Mangoes Jonathan Cape Joseph O'Neil Netherland 4th Estate Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence Jonathan Cape Tom Rob Smith Child 44 Simon & Schuster 2009 [ 14] Winner Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall 4th Estate Shortlist A. S. Byatt The Children's Book Chatto and Windus J. M. Coetzee Summertime Harvill Secker Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze Jonathan Cape Simon Mawer The Glass Room Little, Brown Sarah Waters The Little Stranger Virago Longlist Sarah Hall How to Paint a Dead Man Faber Samantha Harvey The Wilderness Jonathan Cape James Lever Me Cheeta 4th Estate Ed O’Loughlin Not Untrue & Not Unkind Penguin James Scudamore Heliopolis Harvill Secker Colm Tóibín Brooklyn Viking William Trevor Love and Summer Viking 2010 [ 15] Winner Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Bloomsbury Shortlist Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America Faber & Faber Emma Donoghue Room Picador Damon Galgut In a Strange Room Atlantic Books Andrea Levy The Long Song Hachette Tom McCarthy C Jonathan Cape Longlist Helen Dunmore The Betrayal Fig Tree David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Sceptre Lisa Moore February Random House Paul Murray Skippy Dies Hamish Hamilton Rose Tremain Trespass Chatto & Windus Christos Tsiolkas The Slap Allen & Unwin Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky Jonathan Cape 2011 [ 16] Winner Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending Jonathan Cape Shortlist Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie Canongate Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers Granta Books Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues Serpent's Tail Stephen Kelman Pigeon English Bloomsbury A D Miller Snowdrops Atlantic Books Longlist Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side Faber & Faber Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats Oneworld Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child Picador Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days Seren Alison Pick Far to Go Tinder Press Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb Canongate D. J. Taylor Derby Day Chatto & Windus 2012 [ 17] Winner Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies 4th Estate Shortlist Deborah Levy Swimming Home And Other Stories/Faber & Faber Alison Moore The Lighthouse Salt Publishing Will Self Umbrella Bloomsbury Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists Myrmidon Books Jeet Thayil Narcopolis Faber & Faber Longlist Nicola Barker The Yips 4th Estate Ned Beauman The Teleportation Accident Sceptre André Brink Philida Harvill Secker Michael Frayn Skios Faber & Faber Rachel Joyce The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Doubleday Sam Thompson Communion Town 4th Estate 2013 [ 18] Winner Eleanor Catton The Luminaries Granta Shortlist NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names Chatto & Windus Jim Crace Harvest Picador Jhumpa Lahiri The Lowland Bloomsbury Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being Canongate Colm Tóibín The Testament of Mary Viking Longlist Tash Aw Five Star Billionaire 4th Estate Eve Harris The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Sandstone Press Richard House The Kills Picador Alison MacLeod Unexploded Hamish Hamilton Colum McCann TransAtlantic Bloomsbury Publishing Charlotte Mendelson Almost English Mantle Donal Ryan The Spinning Heart Doubleday 2014 [ 19] Winner Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Chatto & Windus Shortlist Joshua Ferris To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Viking Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Serpent's Tail Howard Jacobson J Jonathan Cape Neel Mukherjee The Lives of Others Chatto & Windus Ali Smith How to Be Both Hamish Hamilton Longlist Siri Hustvedt The Blazing World Sceptre Press Paul Kingsnorth The Wake Unbound David Mitchell The Bone Clocks Sceptre Press David Nicholls Us Hodder and Stoughton Joseph O’Neill The Dog 4th Estate Richard Powers Orfeo Atlantic Books Niall Williams History of the Rain Bloomsbury 2015 Winner Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Oneworld Publications Shortlist [ 20] Tom McCarthy Satin Island Jonathan Cape Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen One Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways Picador Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread Chatto & Windus Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Picador Longlist Bill Clegg Did You Ever Have a Family Gallery/Scout Anne Enright The Green Road Jonathan Cape Laila Lalami The Moor’s Account Bloomsbury Andrew O'Hagan The Illuminations Faber & Faber Marilynne Robinson Lila Virago Anuradha Roy Sleeping on Jupiter Maclehose Press Anna Smaill The Chimes Hodder & Stoughton 2016 [ 21] Winner Paul Beatty The Sellout Oneworld Shortlist Deborah Levy Hot Milk Hamish Hamilton Graeme Macrae Burnet His Bloody Project Contraband Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Jonathan Cape David Szalay All That Man Is Jonathan Cape Madeleine Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing Granta Longlist J. M. Coetzee The Schooldays of Jesus Harvill Secker A.L. Kennedy Serious Sweet Jonathan Cape Ian McGuire The North Water Scribner David Means Hystopia Faber & Faber Wyl Menmuir The Many Salt Virginia Reeves Work Like Any Other Fanfare Elizabeth Strout My Name Is Lucy Barton Viking 2017 Winner George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Bloomsbury Shortlist [ 22] Paul Auster 4 3 2 1 Faber & Faber Emily Fridlund History of Wolves Weidenfeld & Nicolson Mohsin Hamid Exit West Hamish Hamilton Fiona Mozley Elmet John Murray Ali Smith Autumn Hamish Hamilton Longlist Sebastian Barry Days Without End Faber & Faber Mike McCormack Solar Bones Canongate Jon McGregor Reservoir 13 4th Estate Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Hamish Hamilton Kamila Shamsie Home Fire Bloomsbury Zadie Smith Swing Time Hamish Hamilton Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Fleet Publishing 2018 Winner Anna Burns Milkman Faber & Faber Shortlist [ 23] Esi Edugyan Washington Black Serpent's Tail Daisy Johnson Everything Under Jonathan Cape Rachel Kushner The Mars Room Jonathan Cape Richard Powers The Overstory William Heinemann Robin Robertson The Long Take Picador Longlist Belinda Bauer Snap Bantam Press Nick Drnaso Sabrina Granta Guy Gunaratne In Our Mad And Furious City Tinder Press Sophie Mackintosh The Water Cure Hamish Hamilton Michael Ondaatje Warlight Jonathan Cape Sally Rooney Normal People Faber & Faber Donal Ryan From a Low and Quiet Sea Doubleday 2019 Winners [ 24] [ 25] Margaret Atwood The Testaments Chatto & Windus Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Hamish Hamilton Shortlist [ 26] Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport Galley Beggar Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities Little, Brown Salman Rushdie Quichotte Jonathan Cape Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Viking Longlist Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier Canongate Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer Atlantic Books John Lanchester The Wall Faber & Faber Deborah Levy The Man Who Saw Everything Hamish Hamilton Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive 4th Estate Max Porter Lanny Faber & Faber Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein Jonathan Cape 2020 Winner Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Picador Shortlist [ 27] [ 28] Diane Cook The New Wilderness Oneworld Publications Tsitsi Dangarembga This Mournable Body Faber & Faber Avni Doshi Burnt Sugar Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King Canongate Brandon Taylor Real Life Daunt Books Longlist Gabriel Krauze Who They Was 4th Estate Hilary Mantel The Mirror & the Light [ 29] 4th Estate Colum McCann Apeirogon Bloomsbury Kiley Reid Such a Fun Age Bloomsbury Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the Road Chatto & Windus Sophie Ward Love and Other Thought Experiments Corsair C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills Is Gold Virago 2021 Winner [ 30] Damon Galgut The Promise Chatto & Windus Shortlist [ 31] Anuk Arudpragasam A Passage North Granta Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking About This Bloomsbury Nadifa Mohamed The Fortune Men Viking Richard Powers Bewilderment Hutchinson Heinemann Maggie Shipstead Great Circle Doubleday Longlist [ 32] Rachel Cusk Second Place Faber & Faber Nathan Harris The Sweetness of Water Tinder Press Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun Faber & Faber Karen Jennings An Island Holland House Books Mary Lawson A Town Called Solace Chatto & Windus Sunjeev Sahota China Room Harvill Secker Francis Spufford Light Perpetual Faber & Faber 2022 Winner Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Sort of Books Shortlist [ 33] NoViolet Bulawayo Glory Chatto & Windus Percival Everett The Trees Influx Press Alan Garner Treacle Walker 4th Estate Claire Keegan Small Things Like These Faber & Faber Elizabeth Strout Oh William! Viking Longlist [ 34] Graeme Macrae Burnet Case Study Saraband Hernán Díaz Trust Picador Karen Joy Fowler Booth Serpent's Tail Audrey Magee The Colony Faber & Faber Maddie Mortimer Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies Picador Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Bloomsbury Selby Wynn Schwartz After Sappho Galley Beggar 2023 Winner [ 35] Paul Lynch Prophet Song Oneworld Publications Shortlist [ 36] Sarah Bernstein Study for Obedience Granta Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You 4th Estate Paul Harding This Other Eden Hutchinson Heinemann Paul Murray The Bee Sting Hamish Hamilton Chetna Maroo Western Lane Picador Longlist [ 37] Ayobami Adebayo A Spell of Good Things Canongate Sebastian Barry Old God's Time Faber & Faber Elaine Feeney How to Build a Boat Harvill Secker Siân Hughes Pearl Indigo Press Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow All the Little Bird-Hearts Tinder Press Martin MacInnes In Ascension Atlantic Books Tan Twan Eng The House of Doors Canongate 2024 Winner [ 38] Samantha Harvey Orbital Jonathan Cape Shortlist [ 39] Percival Everett James Mantle Rachel Kushner Creation Lake Jonathan Cape Anne Michaels Held Bloomsbury Yael van der Wouden The Safekeep Viking Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional Sceptre Longlist [ 40] Colin Barrett Wild Houses Jonathan Cape Rita Bullwinkel Headshot Daunt Books Originals Hisham Matar My Friends Viking Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History Fleet Tommy Orange Wandering Stars Harvill Secker Sarah Perry Enlightenment Jonathan Cape Richard Powers Playground Hutchinson Heinemann 2025 Longlist announced 29 July 2025 [ 41] [ 42] Claire Adam Love Forms Faber Tash Aw The South 4th Estate Natasha Brown Universality Faber Jonathan Buckley One Boat Fitzcarraldo Editions Susan Choi Flashlight Jonathan Cape Kiran Desai The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Hamish Hamilton Katie Kitamura Audition Fern Press Ben Markovits The Rest of Our Lives Faber Andrew Miller The Land in Winter Sceptre Maria Reva Endling Virago/Little, Brown David Szalay Flesh Jonathan Cape Benjamin Wood Seascraper Viking Ledia Xhoga Misinterpretation Daunt Books Originals